Hello, Richard!! Thanks for passing on the clip. Is there a pool for the asteroid
taking out a GPS satellite? I see that the best viewing will be Australia and Antarctica. Is there anyone at McMurdo this time of year?? Dennis ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:13:24 -0700 > From: damoc...@yahoo.com > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to Whip > Past Earth on June 27, 2011 > > UGH > I'm glad that wasn't the headline for the release about 2011 CQ. > > Anyway, there is a bit of discussion about this object ove ron my Minor > Planet Mailing List, including the possibility thatthis might be some old > space junk returning. > > List members here might be interested in some animationsPasquale Tricarico at > the Planetary Science Institute put together. Pretty cool seeing how much the > orbit is changed by the encounter with the earth. > > > http://orbit.psi.edu/~tricaric/2011MD.html > > > -- > Richard Kowalski > Full Moon Photography > IMCA #1081 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ron Baalke <baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> > To: Meteorite Mailing List <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:30 PM > Subject: [meteorite-list] Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to Whip Past > Earth on June 27, 2011 > > > http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news172.html > > Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011 > Don Yeomans & Paul Chodas > NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office > June 23, 2011 > > [Graphic] > Trajectory of 2011 MD projected onto the Earth's orbital plane. Note > from this viewing angle, the asteroid passes underneath the Earth. > > [Graphic] > Trajectory of 2011 MD from the general direction of the Sun. > > Near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 > miles) above the Earth's surface on Monday June 27 at about 9:30 EDT. > The asteroid was discovered by the LINEAR near-Earth object discovery > team observing from Socorro, New Mexico. The diagram on the left shows > the trajectory of 2011 MD projected onto the Earth's orbital plane over > a four-day interval. The diagram on the left gives another view from the > general direction of the Sun that indicates that 2011 MD will reach its > closest Earth approach point in extreme southern latitudes (in fact over > the southern Atlantic Ocean). This small asteroid, only 5-20 meters in > diameter, is in a very Earth-like orbit about the Sun, but an orbital > analysis indicates there is no chance it will actually strike Earth on > Monday. The incoming trajectory leg passes several thousand kilometers > outside the geosynchronous ring of satellites and the outgoing leg > passes well inside the ring. One would expect an object of this size to > come this close to Earth about every 6 years on average. For a brief > time, it will be bright enough to be seen even with a modest-sized > telescope. > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
